Release: PS4 Linux. Steam + Emulators + office out of the box

This is not SteamOS on the PS4, but this is still the real deal. /Talk member D-ecks, who’s provided us with a great tutorial on how to install Linux on your PS4 recently, is now back with a full Linux distrib that lets you run Steam + some other cool features out of the Box. This is it, you can now easily run more than what Fail0verflow showcased a few months ago. Of course, you’ll need a 1.76 PS4 in order to achieve this.

The instructions are fairly simple (full step-by-step description below): download the Linux distrib, install it on a bootable usb Key, and then run it on your PS4 from popular tool PS4 Playground.

D-ecks had announced a while ago that he was working on this distrib, based on the work from OsirisX who was the first to publicly launch Steam (and explain how to do it) on the PS4. After a bit if beta testing he has decided to release the distrib.

We reproduce below the step by step instructions from D-ecks with somee minor modifications for clarity. His thread has more details, including how to make the bootable usb key from Linux and OSX as well.

NEXT STEP

Insert prepared usb stick into your ps4, run PS4 Playground and click the “load linux” button. (Note from wololo: I have slightly modified that step in the hope to make it cleaner. Refer to D-ecks’ thread if you have doubts)

All done. Password for root and ps4 is 1 Also, you can boot this distro on PC as any other live usb (F8 when boot logo appears).

Known problems:

Update: How to install games, etc…

D-ecks contacted me as there seems to be some confusion on how to install games if Wifi and ethernet don’t work. This is basically done by installing them in the USB key from your PC before running Linux on your PS4:

Come on. This isn’t the year 2004 anymore. It is nice that we can execute custom code, but why do you want to have such an emuator-distro with no sound, ethernet etc. ? You have a PS4 so that you can play great games like Uncharted 4, GTA5 etc.

If you want an emulator box, just go and get an android-TV-device (Nividia Shield works great, but there are also cheaper ones which will do the job) or a Mini-PC (Backbone) for your TV.

Maybe it’s not that attractive in its current state, but surely we’ll get a proper way of loading games that require higher firmware without losing the exploitability of the console sooner or later. That way we can have both an emulator box and a machine that can play the latest games…

Wait for it. This is the bloodiest edge of ps4 hacking/developing. You can’t have everything right out of the box from devs that do this in their free time.

How many companies do you know, released stuff unfinished & untested into the wild? Just to either extensively after patch it or to abandon their product? I know a lot of those failed products, even from rather respectable companies.

Right? At least someone else doesn’t have their head up their @$$ like most people on this site. Thanks for the hard work D-ecks and Osirus, really appreciate the works you two do for the scene. Just ignore everyone.

Theres a couple of questions I’ve been wondering for a really long time how exactly do we copy are games over to the Linux from the PC? Plugin to USB slot??? I understand there is no internet connection but is it possible to run Wine for Linux by putting the installer file on your usb stick plug it in to the PS4 and when it detects your USB you can take the file out of the drive and put it in your Desktop, Documents, etc. then run it from there??? Hope someone answers my questions. I’m so proud of you guys I can’t believe we are going to have a Steam machine!!!

Turns out that the crc error I was getting could be fixed with winware. What you need to do is click on the rar in winware, click extract to…, look down at misc. options, tick the box that has something to do with damaged archives (I’m posting from ps4) and let it extract. Then follow the tutorial.

Personal Feeling, only PS4 news…I miss the vita news, but it looks like rejuvenate has been a fail on our vitas, I regret I updated from my 3.18, since I am a simple user, I do regret to have my vita updated waiting for “native hacking”, I am still waiting zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…, I do not regret having my console updated for use with my PS4 which is great, but I miss to have other features I had on 3.18…

I wouldn’t upgrade mine from 3.51 for the world. With all the hacks gone the Vita would get no use from me at all. Remote Play for PS4 or PS Now weren’t worth the upgrade, I know this because I had a Slim fully updated and wasn’t impressed.

Ok i like this idea and some guy is selling a 1.76 PS4, but my biggest question is so far: What can we play with PS4 Linux Steam Setup. The only evidence i have seen is Bastion, but i want to see like data or a video what we really can play with this before i buy an expensive PS4.

I got problems with the extraction of the distro image. on my linux os machine extraction failed, don’t know why. so I extracted it on a windows os machine. my archive manager shows a 3,7gb image , but after extraction it’s about 7,4gb. seems to my that something isn’t correct. any ideas? greets, dvo

Just wondering could anyone give step by step instruction, I have ps4 with this version I don’t know if the script it self will put it on the usb drive or directly put in the web explorer of the ps4. kindly please help. Thanks

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